First technical interview, and please note I've been interviewing for over twenty years... Was write a full asynchronous demo, using threads and with nonconcurrent dictionary to show how it's not thread safe.

Then fix it.

30 mins. It was a car crash. Maybe I should have been able to do it?!

I spent two hours after that setting up my old legacy example then using DI and the decorator pattern (with semaphoreSlim) to show how I would wrap the old third-party (closed) dependency.

Sent them the git repo link.

Got some tosh back and decided to remove myself from the process.

I think what annoys me more than anything is the total disdain for the candidate. No prep, no partial code, no guidance.

I don't care who you are writing code in web browser window with no auto completion or debugger is horrible.

When will these firms learn?

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First technical interview, and please note I've been interviewing for over twenty years... Was write a full asynchronous demo, using threads and with nonconcurrent dictionary to show how it's not thread safe.

Then fix it.

30 mins.  It was a car crash.  Maybe I should have been able to do it?!

I spent two hours after that setting up my old legacy example then using DI and the decorator pattern (with semaphoreSlim) to show how I would wrap the old third-party (closed) dependency.

Sent them the git repo link.

Got some tosh back and decided to remove myself from the process.

I think what annoys me more than anything is the total disdain for the candidate.  No prep, no partial code, no guidance.

I don't care who you are writing code in web browser window with no auto completion or debugger is horrible.

When will these firms learn?

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